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dòu

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dòu Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dòu | dou4
English translation
comma
phrase marked by pause
Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dú | du2
English translation
to read
to study
reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音 pīnyīn [pīn yīn]
to study, to learn; to read, to pronounce

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About dòu

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

Contains the radical

yán

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

To show off  mài one's literacy  yán

Etymology of dòu

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

讠卖

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. yán represents the meaning and mài represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Example sentences using dòu

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万般皆下品,惟有 wéi yǒu 读书 dú shū Gāo .

To be a scholar is to be the top of society.

tān kāi 那张 zhòu Chéng tuán de zhǐ dòu le 起来 qǐlai .

He smoothed out the ball of crushed paper and read it.

dòu Guò 红楼梦 Hóng lóu Mèng ?

Have you read " A Dream of Red Mansions " ?

dòu wán Fēng yóu 付费 fù fèi de xìn , 顿时 dùnshí 大发雷霆 dà fā léi tíng ,随即 suíjí 便 biàn xìn 粉碎 fěnsuì .

As soon as he finished reading the collect letter, he fell into a rage and tore it into pieces.

追根 zhuī gēn 究底,与其说 dòu zhě 在读王映霞,不如说他们 tā men 在读达夫.

Argumentative and Wang Yingxia time in more readers than they read Yu.

Words with dòu

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
dòu to read
读者 dú zhě reader讀者
读书 dú shū to study讀書
阅读 yuèdú to read閱讀
解读 jiě dú to decipher解讀
宣读 xuān dú to read out loud to an audience宣讀
就读 jiù dú to go to school就讀
读物 dú wù reading material讀物
读数 dú shù reading讀數
朗读 lǎngdú to read aloud朗讀
读取 dú qǔ (of a computer etc) to read (data)讀取
攻读 gōng dú to major (in a field)攻讀
拜读 bài dú (polite) to read (sth)拜讀
复读 fù dú to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school復讀
读报 dú bào to read newspapers讀報
诵读 sòng dú to read aloud誦讀
读书人 dú shū rén scholar讀書人
读音 dú yīn pronunciation讀音
读本 dú běn reader讀本
读出 dú chū to read out loud讀出
重读 zhòng dú stress (on a syllable)重讀
研读 yán dú to delve into研讀
导读 dǎo dú guide (e.g. book or other printed material)導讀
读后感 dú hòu gǎn impression of a book讀後感

dòu Decomposition & Compounds

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dòu Decomposition

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